| The passages for this Sunday from Sirach and Colossians specify the shape of a happy home for their times. |
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| Simon II, who lived about 200 B. C. E., is praised by Sirach at the end of his eulogy of the ancestors in chapters 44 to 50 of his book. |
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| In addition, some newer books were included in the Septuagint, among these are the Maccabees and the Wisdom of Sirach. |
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| The corrupt ex-politician picked passages from the books of Sirach which warns of the evils of money. |
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| The ancestors thus praised by Sirach are: the patriarchs who lived before the flood, the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses, Joshua, the Judges, David and the Prophets, Josiah and Nehemiah. |
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| It would be possible to draw up a list of charisms, focussing for the most part on that of leadership, starting from the sapiential literature of Proverbs, Wisdom, Ecclesiastes of Qoheleth and Ecclesiasticus of Ben Sirach. |
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| On the one hand, Sirach defers to ancient Israel's sacred traditions by identifying Wisdom with Torah. |
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| However, the book of Sirach, is now known to have existed in a Hebrew version, since ancient Hebrew manuscripts of it were rediscovered in modern times. |
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